Celebrating a 100 Years of Stafford Beer
Stafford Beer, the Father of Organisational Cybernetics, would be 100 years old on the 25th of September 2026. To celebrate the 100th birthday of Stafford, this webinar from Dr Angela Espinosa will discuss his main contributions to management, operational research and the paths that his legacy opened and continue to be developed, that can help us addressing some of the intractable problems business and societies are dealing with in this century.
More than fifty years after his invention of the Viable System Model and Team Syntegrity, Beer's work remains urgently relevant as organisations and societies confront escalating complexity, ecological limits, technological disruption, and crises of governance. Join us to explore Angela’s insights on the legacy of Beer’s work and its relevance to helping with the problems we still face today.
Meet the Speaker
Dr Angela Espinosa is an internationally recognised leader in Organisational Cybernetics and complexity management, with more than four decades of contributions to research, practice and international academic leadership. Working closely with Professor Stafford Beer early in her career, she became one of the most influential scholars extending and applying the Viable System Model (VSM). She co-founded and continues to direct Metaphorum, the global cooperative developing Beer’s scientific legacy. Her work bridges theory and practice through systemic interventions with governments, public agencies, corporations, NGOs and communities across Latin America, Europe and the UK. She has shaped national policies, organisational reforms, and sustainability strategies using cybernetic and complexity-based approaches.
She has published widely in leading journals and authored seminal books including ‘Sustainable Self-Governance in Business and Society’ (Routledge, 2023). Her academic appointments include Reader in Cybernetics at Hull University Business School, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Exeter University, and Associate Professor at Los Andes University. She currently serves as Emeritus Fellow at Hull, and Fellow of the Cybernetics Society. She is recipient of the Ashby Lecture (2002), Norbert Wiener Award (2007), EPSRC Fellowships (2007–2010), and multiple Marquis Who’s Who listings.
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Registration ends 25/09/2026 11:00 GMTDT